Bug#635157: cups: please support Brother HL-2130 laser printer out of the box
On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 03:17:57AM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> reassign 635157 openprinting-ppds
> tags 635157 + upstream
> affects 635157 + cups
> quit
>
> Hi,
>
> Brian Potkin wrote:
> >> michalng wrote:
>
> >>> http://welcome.solutions.brother.com/bsc/public_s/id/linux/en/download_prn.html#HL-2130
> [...]
> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/brother-cups-wrapper-laser/+bug/524779
> [...]
> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/25966
>
> This means a goal would be to get a driver included in a simple, free,
> and distro-neutral collection such as openprinting-ppds and listed at
> <http://www.openprinting.org/drivers>.
>
> Michal, does the HL-2130 work as a generic postscript printer? (I am
> guessing it does, based on a quick glance at the ppd and since the
> HL-2140 can act as one.)
The HL-2140 Foomatic/hl1250 (up to 600x600 dpi, 1200x600 dpi eats the
first pages) and Foomatic/hpijs-pcl5e work. hl1250 has more grey levels:
https://plus.google.com/u/0/+JulianAndresKlode/posts/UMZh4xreNu2
The postscript driver does not work, it just prints (many?) empty
pages.
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